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Every twelvemonth the satellite runs much and much connected batteries. Electric vehicles passed 10% of planetary conveyance income successful 2022, and they’re connected way to scope 30% by the extremity of this decade.
The modulation from gas-powered cars to EVs volition necessitate tons of batteries—and amended and cheaper ones astatine that. Most EVs contiguous are powered by lithium-ion batteries, a decades-old exertion that world labs and companies alike are seeking to marque much businesslike and adjacent much affordable.
In the midst of the soaring request for EVs and renewable power, and an detonation successful artillery development, 1 happening is certain: batteries volition play a cardinal relation successful the modulation to renewable energy. Here’s what to expect successful 2023. Read the afloat story.
—Casey Crownhart
Chinese chips volition support powering your mundane life
The planetary semiconductor manufacture is successful a authorities of flux. The US started to instrumentality steps to frost China retired of the manufacture successful 2022, pushing the assemblage to diversify from the Chinese proviso concatenation and physique factories elsewhere.
But portion the US government’s punitive restrictions volition commencement to wound implicit the adjacent fewer months, and the precocious extremity of China’s spot manufacture is apt to suffer, the state whitethorn instrumentality a bigger relation successful manufacturing older-generation chips that are inactive wide utilized successful mundane life. Read the afloat story.
—Zeyi Yang
Zeyi’s communicative is from China Report, his play newsletter giving you the wrong way connected each things astir China. Sign up to person it successful your inbox each Tuesday.
The must-reads
I’ve combed the net to find you today’s astir fun/important/scary/fascinating stories astir technology.
1 China is furious astatine different countries’ covid question restrictions
Beijing claims the covid investigating requirements “lack technological basis.” (The Guardian)
+ AI isn’t precise bully astatine detecting covid. (New Scientist $)
2 Sam Bankman-Fried has pleaded not blameworthy to each charges
He’ll look proceedings successful October. (CoinDesk)
+ It’s imaginable he’ll effort to onslaught a plea woody with prosecutors. (Economist $)
3 Microsoft wants to integrate ChatGPT into Bing
It hopes to spot distant astatine Google’s hunt dominance. (The Information $)
+ How close its answers volition beryllium is inactive up for debate. (Bloomberg $)
+ A caller app claims to observe whether essays person been written utilizing ChatGPT. (Insider $)
+ How to spot AI-generated text. (MIT Technology Review)
4 US pharmacies tin merchantability termination pills for the archetypal time
While a medicine is inactive required, it’ll importantly broaden entree to medicated abortions. (BBC)
+ Where to get termination pills and however to usage them. (MIT Technology Review)
5 Political adverts are returning to Twitter
The U-turn comes months aft advertisers started leaving successful their droves. (Politico)
+ Covid misinformation spiked connected Twitter aft NFL subordinate Damar Hamlin collapsed. (WP $)
6 Ethereum is getting greener
It won’t lick crypto’s biology footprint entirely, though. (Motherboard)
+ Taiwan isn’t disquieted astir the crypto crash. (Rest of World)
7 Instagram is paying musicians a luck to soundtrack its Reels
It’s low-effort, high-reward. (New Yorker $)
+ But it’s mostly getting tougher retired determination for online creators. (The Information $)
8 Amazon successful Pakistan is overrun with scammers
The fraudsters are concocting progressively elaborate schemes to instrumentality victims. (Rest of World)
9 Those inexpensive TVs travel astatine a terms 📺
Once a staple of the American home, they’re not the presumption awesome they utilized to be. (The Atlantic $)
10 Don’t clasp a vacation enactment successful the metaverse 🎉
Your colleagues are improbable to privation to join, unfortunately. (Wired $)
Quote of the day
“I tin odor the stench of crime.”
—An unnamed lawsuit criticizes crypto speech FTX successful a ailment filed with the FTC, Gizmodo reports.
The large story
April 2021
Urban exertion projects person agelong sought to negociate the city. The latest, “smart city” projects, person overmuch successful communal with erstwhile iterations. Again and again, these initiatives committedness caller “solutions” to municipality “problems.”
After a decennary of aviator projects and flashy demonstrations, though, it’s inactive not wide whether astute metropolis technologies tin really lick oregon adjacent mitigate the challenges cities face. What is clear, however, is that exertion companies are progressively taking connected administrative and infrastructure responsibilities that governments person agelong fulfilled.
If astute cities are to debar exacerbating municipality inequalities, we person to instrumentality a long, hard look astatine however cities person fared truthful far. Read the afloat story.
—Jennifer Clark
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A spot for comfort, amusive and distraction successful these weird times. (Got immoderate ideas? Drop maine a line or tweet 'em astatine me.)
+ Did you perceive the 1 astir the nun and the monk who fell successful emotion and got married? No, really!
+ The Centenarians of Oklahoma dependable perfectly fabulous.
+ An English seaside municipality canceled its New Year fireworks—to support a visiting walrus.
+ Loads of america volition acceptable ourselves reading goals this year, but not each of america volition instrumentality to them.
+ Aww. Rats deride pleasance from watching fellow rodents getting tickled. 🐀
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